
Gareth Harris
Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper
Tate returns Nazi-looted Henry Gibbs painting to heirs of Jewish dealer
The UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel says the work was taken by the Nazis as “an act of racial persecution”
Hong Kong Palace Museum show reflects a golden age of exchange between China and France
The exhibition, featuring loans from the Palace of Versailles and The Palace Museum in Beijing, celebrates the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations
Lee Mingwei's anti-war work, ‘Guernica in Sand’, feels more relevant than ever
The Taiwanese artist encourages the audience to make their mark on his vast installation, an evocation of Picasso’s 1930s masterpiece, at M+ in Hong Kong
Casino giant hands out inaugural prize at Art Basel Hong Kong
Shin Min wins MGM's $50,000 award for her portrayal of the “harsh reality” faced by fast food workers in South Korea
Tutankhamun treasures head to Hong Kong for major Ancient Egypt show
Seven Egyptian venues will loan more than 200 works for the exhibition, including objects from Saqqara tombs
Exploring Robert Rauschenberg’s love of the East on his centennial
M+ to show works from the Overseas Cultural Interchange that ran in ten countries including China; Thaddaeus Ropac gallery gives US artist a platform at Art Basel Hong Kong
Political paintings and addressing misogyny: extensive Picasso exhibition opens in Hong Kong
The Art Newspaper's top takeaways from the M+ Museum's newest show
Tate Modern announces 2026 programme, including Frida Kahlo and Tracey Emin exhibitions
Meanwhile Tate Britain will explore the legacy of Bloomsbury Group members Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and tell the story of the 90s in a show curated by Edward Enninful
UK government announces raft of new museum trustees, including artist Isaac Julien and ‘Traitors’ presenter Claudia Winkleman
Appointments have been made at the British Museum, Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum
London Museum receives £20m cash boost and Roman artefact trove from Bloomberg
The private donation becomes the largest the museum has received to date
Two found guilty in theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet
The Crown Prosecution Service says it is confident that the case “played a part in disrupting a wider crime and money-laundering network”
Did AI just authenticate a version of one of Rubens’s most famous works?
A Swiss company has examined a version of Rubens’s ‘The Bath of Diana’, which was long thought to be a copy, and believes it could be authentic—the leading authority on the artist takes a different view
Protestors descend on London’s Royal Academy over planned job cuts
The RA says that up to 60 jobs are a risk of redundancy—but the union claims the true figure is almost 100
Venice Biennale 2026: Switzerland and Nordic Countries reveal artists
Switzerland will be represented by six cultural figures, while a trio will take over the Nordic pavilion
Politician detained after attacks on ‘blasphemous’ works at Greek National Gallery
Four works by artist Christoforos Katsadiotis were vandalised earlier this week, The National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum in Athens confirmed
Edward Gillman appointed director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery
Gillman, who was previously the director of Auto Italia in London, will replace Zoé Whitley, who stepped down in 2024
As Tate marks Turner’s 250th birthday, his visions of a wild world still elevate, soothe and harrow the soul
A year-long event bonanza will mark the birthday of perhaps the greatest British artist ever
March Book Bag: from a compilation of artist love stories to a polemic questioning morality in art
Our round-up of the latest art publications
‘He could be grotesquely, wildly intemperate’: biographer Blake Gopnik tells us about the great collector Albert C. Barnes
A new biography on the renowned businessman, who amassed one of the most important collections of Modern art in the US, looks at what made him tick
A painting of Venice’s Grand Canal, previously thought to be by Canaletto, has been attributed to his teenage nephew
Specialists at London's Wallace Collection have attributed an 18th-century work to Bernardo Bellotto, who would then have been aged just 15 or 16
Tourist admission fees at UK national museums would be ‘ideologically at odds’ with global collections, says new report
The report also describes the idea of charging international visitors as “logistically complex”
Northern Sámi artist Máret Ánne Sara —known for highlighting ecological concerns —will take over Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this autumn
The move reflects an increased focus on Indigenous art practices in museums around the world
Cattelan gold toilet trial: defendant says he used the loo and it was ‘splendid’
The fully functioning 18-carat gold toilet was removed from an exhibition of Maurizio Cattelan’s work at Blenheim Palace in 2019
Innovative or inappropriate? Sector reacts to UK government's new culture podcast
Presented by culture minister Chris Bryant, ‘First Draft’ is billed as the podcast that “explores the impact, innovation and opportunity in the UK’s creative industries”
Esteemed private collection of Roman marbles is starting its North American tour
Nearly 60 works from the Torlonia Collection, including striking depictions of animals and people, will feature in exhibitions in Chicago, Fort Worth and Montreal
Royal Academy staff face redundancy amid plans to cut 18% of workforce
Sixty roles are at risk at the London institution, although almost half are "current vacancies", a spokesperson says
Cattelan's £4.8m gold toilet stolen in five minute raid and split into smaller parts, court hears
The court case of three men charged with the 2019 theft has begun in Oxford, and is expected to last four weeks
Lubaina Himid will represent Great Britain at the 2026 Venice Biennale
The Zanzibar-born cultural activist has been a supporter of Black artists since the 1980s
Archaeologist behind discovery of pharaoh's tomb says he may have found another
Piers Litherland, who led the team which discovered Thutmose II's tomb, believes this latest chamber could contain the ancient king's mummy
Architect Lina Ghotmeh wins competition to revamp British Museum’s vast Western Range galleries
Ghotmeh beat five architect-led teams to land what the museum has called “one of the biggest cultural renovations undertaken anywhere in the world”